Evolving human nutrition : implications for public health /

"While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we did not evolve to be bound by industrial schedules, nor did the food we eat. Despite this, we eat the products of industrialization and often suffer as a consequence. This book considers aspects of changing human nutrition from...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ulijaszek, Stanley J.
Other Authors: Mann, Neil, 1953-, Elton, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 64.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Locating human diet in a mammalian framework
  • Diet and hominin evolution
  • Seasonality of environment and diet
  • Evolution of human diet and eating behaviour
  • Dietary change and health discordance
  • Nutrition and infectious disease, past and present
  • Inequality and nutritional health
  • Nutrition transition
  • Fats in the global balance
  • Feed the world with carbohydrates.